In Brazil, the hard right wins again

Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro are populists cut from the same cloth. But Trump’s views shift when it is to his political advantage—he once supported most of those policies—whereas Bolsonaro has always belonged to the hard right.

Jair Bolsonaro won 46 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s first round of the Brazilian presidential election, with twelve other candidates running. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 9, 2018

LONDON, U.K.—A man who makes Donald Trump look like a bleeding-heart liberal will almost certainly be Brazil’s next president. Jair Bolsonaro won 46 per cent of the vote in Sunday’s first round of the Brazilian presidential election, with twelve other candidates...

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